Page 22 - Sri Aurobindo on Indian Art - A Photo-exhibit by Madhu Jagdhish
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Indian art was not always solely hieratic,—it
seemed so only because it is in the temples and
cave cathedrals that its greatest work survived;
as the old literature testifies, as we see from
the Rajput and Mogul paintings, it was
devoted as much to the court and the city and
to cultural ideas and the life of the people as to
the temple and monastery and their motives.
(CWSA, 20: 126)
